Do you really think the CEO of GE is involved in deciding what brands of personal computers the company buys? There's some regional director somewhere who's charged with that task and he delegates it to one of his managers whose whole job it is is to maintain the PC fleet.
Then, consider what goes on within divisions - do you think there aren't any Macs at NBC even if the GE corporate headquarters are Windell?
If the CEO of a company is involved with these kinds of decisions, it's a small company.
My soho server has been yum upgraded since it was a Redhat 9 box. Only i686 to x86_64 was a bitch, but I couldn't not try. I learned that probably I shouldn't have done that.
It started out as a P4 desktop unit, now its a Phenom II x6 running Xen 4. Most upgrades do require a touch of knowledge about yum and rpm, and a read of the release notes. But, compared with re-installation/reconfiguration it's not a big deal.
Does anyone know how long Redhat/Fedora will keep supporting Fedora 14 with updates and security fixes?
About 7 more months.
I played with Scientific Linux based on RHES 6.0 but it is Fedora 11 and it does not come with the same kind of software like Joomla, books on Java and Python development, and other things that Fedora has.
Did you check out the EPEL project for those wares?
Actually, lack of ICC color profile is a good thing as it's happily ignored by Internet Explorer (ICC v2 and V4), Firefox (ICC V4, V2 ignored by default) and Opera (V2 and V4).
eh? Several popular browsers don't render color properly so an image format shouldn't allow for rendering it properly? There's "the future" you know...
Next, some one should come up with a rocket that has at least the lift capacity of the old Saturn V. None of the proposed launch vehicles even come close.
Why do you need all that lift in one rocket? The Falcon 9 heavy can lift half of that for 1/3 the launch cost of 're-building' a Saturn V.
I guess you could save some money on not having to bolt stuff together in space, but for that kind of money saved on every launch I bet you could build a really neat space-bolting robot.
Gestural interfaces are ok on a touch screen, but when using a mouse, I find they're just inconvenient.
Yeah, mouse gestures were popular in Opera in, what, 2002? I think the difference is with a touchscreen they're the best you've got but with a mouse you have more expressive options.
I cross the Mass border every day, and I don't see any signs about that.
Interesting, we've got 'em up here in Lebanon at the VT border and I've seen 'em up near Littleton (we take 91 to get up to northern NH). Well, they were there at at one point anyway, I tend to filter things out after a while.
Yes that is right, Google, Slashdot's favorite is quietly orchestrating a mind boggling change in how business and schools will buy and use computers. The cost savings are related to the total lack of need for IT.
I think you're implying that Slashdotters want Corporate IT for corporate IT's sake, but that's probably less true of IT folk on Slashdot than any other subset of IT you're likely to find.
Besides, somebody has to run those Google servers.
I'm genuinely intruiged by the fsp you mention though...
I see from your site you're down in Phoenix - do you know about the guys at Freedom's Phoenix? I hear they're up to good work.
That said, it's a numbers game - we've got a quarter (or less, depending how you count) of the population here. I could put you in touch with some folks from AZ who've moved to NH for the FSP, if that'd be useful to you.
Perhaps not everywhere, but in many places I've done work they sure do. CIO's tend to not want to make important decisions.
It's small business owners that do that.
Actually not as much - they're far more cost-driven. Small business owners are open e.g. to a linux server infrastructure if it works and saves them money. Corporate middle-managers are more CYA-driven.
Likewise, if you're entering the highway from an on ramp, the onus is on you to merge in - nobody is required to "let" you in?
I found this was true in NJ, but when I moved to NH there was strong social pressure to move over when somebody was merging in. Since you need to get up to at least 60 in a short space to get on the Interstates, it's really a safety feature too.
A few years later the State put up signs to that effect at all the Interstate border crossings into NH.
The CTO kept talking about how insecure apples were compared to MS and that it'll take months of careful study to integrate. Last week the CEO sacked him.
Surely Redmond must have a good jobs program for such a loyal soldier?
I would presume for the same reason that businesses installed Windows servers in droves - the mid-level managers had the machines at home. They assumed that they could thus understand the servers themselves, because no dysfunctional middle manager can have his underlings knowing more than he does.
So, "I have a Mac at home, I should have one at the office. My underlings should have what I have (but with a smaller hard drive and LCD panel)".
I assume TFS was referring to the cosmological constant - some have figured that Dark Energy is the mechanism behind the lambda* in Einstein's equations.
The most popular current theory does - there are competitors as well. But, yeah, this is useful because those working on all the theories can keep on going, knowing that they're more likely to be on the right track than they were yesterday.
Lasers, silicon, etc. were all known for a while before they had a noticeable impact on industry or society.
It shouldn't take too long - the LASER was checking out groceries within 15 years of invention. I guess if graphene isn't showing up all over 15 years from now, we can look for a different 21st Century revolution.
Yeah, you're right, if you're doing the iptables by hand you're good to go. Most Redhat sysadmins edit the sysconfig/iptables file and issue a restart, though. And, right, for more complex rules changes it's pretty tough to do without a reload (though it is possible with enough creativity).
and completely omit things like graph theory that are absolutely fundamental.... Some will have taught themselves stuff (and probably picked up some bad habits along the way), some will not. The ones who are self taught will be bored for at least some of the first year, since everyone else will be catching up.
Right on. Why not start CS classes at the sophomore level? To a large extent Engineering does this already.
Freshmen can take the relevant maths, logic, etc.. Those who want to be CS majors can place out of the freshmen programming classes (or maths even) or take that year to learn how to program well enough to get into the meat of the coursework. Sure, they can't finish their major by Junior Spring, but neither do engineers.
A five-year program for those with no prior experience is also a possibility.
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Do you really think the CEO of GE is involved in deciding what brands of personal computers the company buys? There's some regional director somewhere who's charged with that task and he delegates it to one of his managers whose whole job it is is to maintain the PC fleet.
Then, consider what goes on within divisions - do you think there aren't any Macs at NBC even if the GE corporate headquarters are Windell?
If the CEO of a company is involved with these kinds of decisions, it's a small company.
My soho server has been yum upgraded since it was a Redhat 9 box. Only i686 to x86_64 was a bitch, but I couldn't not try. I learned that probably I shouldn't have done that.
It started out as a P4 desktop unit, now its a Phenom II x6 running Xen 4. Most upgrades do require a touch of knowledge about yum and rpm, and a read of the release notes. But, compared with re-installation/reconfiguration it's not a big deal.
They're not even planning to build it until the 2020's. Right now it's all just fund-raising and hype
Pitch: "We're going to deliver cargo to space for the same cost as Falcon 9 Heavy, but with much less capacity and 10 years later!".
Yeah, so, um, "but it's British"?
Does anyone know how long Redhat/Fedora will keep supporting Fedora 14 with updates and security fixes?
About 7 more months.
I played with Scientific Linux based on RHES 6.0 but it is Fedora 11 and it does not come with the same kind of software like Joomla, books on Java and Python development, and other things that Fedora has.
Did you check out the EPEL project for those wares?
Actually, lack of ICC color profile is a good thing as it's happily ignored by Internet Explorer (ICC v2 and V4), Firefox (ICC V4, V2 ignored by default) and Opera (V2 and V4).
eh? Several popular browsers don't render color properly so an image format shouldn't allow for rendering it properly? There's "the future" you know...
Next, some one should come up with a rocket that has at least the lift capacity of the old Saturn V. None of the proposed launch vehicles even come close.
Why do you need all that lift in one rocket? The Falcon 9 heavy can lift half of that for 1/3 the launch cost of 're-building' a Saturn V.
I guess you could save some money on not having to bolt stuff together in space, but for that kind of money saved on every launch I bet you could build a really neat space-bolting robot.
a HUGE amount of gold-plating and featherbedding
does 'featherbedding' mean corruption? If not, you forgot one.
Gestural interfaces are ok on a touch screen, but when using a mouse, I find they're just inconvenient.
Yeah, mouse gestures were popular in Opera in, what, 2002? I think the difference is with a touchscreen they're the best you've got but with a mouse you have more expressive options.
There's actually a particular gesture that's widely standardized to address this type of thing. At least in the US.
I'm pretty sure there's an i18n localization for a semantically equivalent gesture in each locale.
What with all the OS companies trademarking the various gestures, there's no way they'll become standardized. Unfortunately.
Are they patenting them or trademarking them? Any copyrights?
I cross the Mass border every day, and I don't see any signs about that.
Interesting, we've got 'em up here in Lebanon at the VT border and I've seen 'em up near Littleton (we take 91 to get up to northern NH). Well, they were there at at one point anyway, I tend to filter things out after a while.
Yes that is right, Google, Slashdot's favorite is quietly orchestrating a mind boggling change in how business and schools will buy and use computers. The cost savings are related to the total lack of need for IT.
I think you're implying that Slashdotters want Corporate IT for corporate IT's sake, but that's probably less true of IT folk on Slashdot than any other subset of IT you're likely to find.
Besides, somebody has to run those Google servers.
I'm genuinely intruiged by the fsp you mention though...
I see from your site you're down in Phoenix - do you know about the guys at Freedom's Phoenix? I hear they're up to good work.
That said, it's a numbers game - we've got a quarter (or less, depending how you count) of the population here. I could put you in touch with some folks from AZ who've moved to NH for the FSP, if that'd be useful to you.
Middle managers don't have that authority.
Perhaps not everywhere, but in many places I've done work they sure do. CIO's tend to not want to make important decisions.
It's small business owners that do that.
Actually not as much - they're far more cost-driven. Small business owners are open e.g. to a linux server infrastructure if it works and saves them money. Corporate middle-managers are more CYA-driven.
That's pretty neat. Anybody know of something similar that works with less robust (expensive) hardware?
This looks like a good start with an Arduino/accelerometer.
What would you think if your car location data would be publicly available?
Cars? Heck, I want all of the call records out of the Google execs' homes and offices. The NSA has them.
Signed,
Bing Corporate Division
Likewise, if you're entering the highway from an on ramp, the onus is on you to merge in - nobody is required to "let" you in?
I found this was true in NJ, but when I moved to NH there was strong social pressure to move over when somebody was merging in. Since you need to get up to at least 60 in a short space to get on the Interstates, it's really a safety feature too.
A few years later the State put up signs to that effect at all the Interstate border crossings into NH.
The CTO kept talking about how insecure apples were compared to MS and that it'll take months of careful study to integrate. Last week the CEO sacked him.
Surely Redmond must have a good jobs program for such a loyal soldier?
So why the jump in sales?
I would presume for the same reason that businesses installed Windows servers in droves - the mid-level managers had the machines at home. They assumed that they could thus understand the servers themselves, because no dysfunctional middle manager can have his underlings knowing more than he does.
So, "I have a Mac at home, I should have one at the office. My underlings should have what I have (but with a smaller hard drive and LCD panel)".
Just a guess based on the last go-around.
WTF has Einstein to do with this?!
I assume TFS was referring to the cosmological constant - some have figured that Dark Energy is the mechanism behind the lambda* in Einstein's equations.
*someday Unicode will work on Slashdot...
and current theory uses dark energy to explain
The most popular current theory does - there are competitors as well. But, yeah, this is useful because those working on all the theories can keep on going, knowing that they're more likely to be on the right track than they were yesterday.
Lasers, silicon, etc. were all known for a while before they had a noticeable impact on industry or society.
It shouldn't take too long - the LASER was checking out groceries within 15 years of invention. I guess if graphene isn't showing up all over 15 years from now, we can look for a different 21st Century revolution.
We're not so much as inventing technology as we are inventing our first awareness that it has been there all along.
Whoa.
Yeah, you're right, if you're doing the iptables by hand you're good to go. Most Redhat sysadmins edit the sysconfig/iptables file and issue a restart, though. And, right, for more complex rules changes it's pretty tough to do without a reload (though it is possible with enough creativity).
and completely omit things like graph theory that are absolutely fundamental. ... Some will have taught themselves stuff (and probably picked up some bad habits along the way), some will not. The ones who are self taught will be bored for at least some of the first year, since everyone else will be catching up.
Right on. Why not start CS classes at the sophomore level? To a large extent Engineering does this already.
Freshmen can take the relevant maths, logic, etc.. Those who want to be CS majors can place out of the freshmen programming classes (or maths even) or take that year to learn how to program well enough to get into the meat of the coursework. Sure, they can't finish their major by Junior Spring, but neither do engineers.
A five-year program for those with no prior experience is also a possibility.